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...SPLENDID SHILLING?Idwal Jones?Doubleday, Page ($2). "Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling." So lied the old Welsh proverb. The girl, Danzel, wore the crusted coin?rapt from the empty ribs of a warrior?until there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against...
...Welsh trouble is on this story; a gypsy wandering and a sad chivalry. He found Danzel again?but he flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...
...entire program is as follows: Glee Club Five Folk Songs-- March of Men of Harlech Welsh The Keeper English Fireflies Russian Londonderry Air Irish A Prayer of Thanksgiving Dutch Instrumental Club Who The Song of the Vagabond Hawaiian Quartet Hawaiian Selections Glee Club Jerusalem Parry Integer Vitae Graut Us to Do With Zeal Bach Instrumental Club Up the Street Morse Just a Cottage Small by a Waterfall H. W. Rubsamen and Band Specialty Act Glee Club Veritas Dinsmore Ten Thousand Men of Harvard Taylor Here Come the Doggone Elis 1929 Class Song E. H. Atkinson '29 Combined Clubs Football Songs...
...Green, like Secretary of Labor Davis, has Welsh blood in his veins, and began life as a miner, but he was born in this country at Coshocton, Ohio. In the year and five months of his stewardship he has shown where his talents lie-as a conciliator and composer of differences within the ranks of labor and as a leader devoted to the policy of "the middle course" between a possibly imaginary Scylla of Capitalism and a certainly dreaded Charybdis of Communism...
There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer's wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence...